Well, that's certainly getting off on the wrong foot — twice.

A Bangor doctor operated on the wrong foot. 7 years later he did it again.

In July 2024, a podiatrist in Bangor was scheduled to operate on a patient he’d been treating for months.

A nurse at St. Joseph Hospital remembered that morning as “hectic,” according to an investigative report. Surgeries were running late. Computer issues were preventing doctors from reviewing patient photos. But after a slight delay, the patient’s left foot was marked in preparation for a procedure to repair the Achilles and peroneal tendon surgery.

In the operation room a short time later, however, a stocking and tourniquet were placed on the right leg. The doctor, Adam Darcy of Acadia Foot & Ankle, didn’t notice until it was too late. He operated on the wrong foot.

And it wasn’t his first time.

Details about the 2024 botched surgery were included in a report filed last month with the Maine Board of Licensure of Podiatric Medicine, which investigates complaints against foot doctors.

Board members concluded Darcy “had been negligent in his practice,” by his own admission.

“Even during the surgery it did not occur to (Darcy) that he was operating on the wrong site,” the board concluded in its final report.

Though Darcy operated on the patient’s right foot, he wrote in an operating report following the surgery that it occurred on the left foot. He amended that report to reflect his mistake about a week later.

Darcy’s surgical privileges were revoked by St. Joseph Hospital in December last year and Northern Light Health the next month. The state’s licensing board issued lifetime restrictions on his surgical license and placed him on three years’ probation, but he is still allowed to practice non-surgical medicine.

Acadia Foot & Ankle’s website indicates Darcy is still working at the clinic. Darcy, who has been licensed in Maine since 2003, declined interview requests and did not answer a list of questions about the operation, citing patient confidentiality and an “ongoing lawsuit.”

What, a lawsuit? Who could have imagined that? Based on a similar case I once had, I guarantee you that the hospital’s first call here was to its errors and omissions carrier.